The 2009 Bad Sex in Fiction Award has been copiously discharged to Jonathan Littell for his novel, The Kindly Ones, particularly for a passage involving sex on (in?) a guillotine and an orgasmic “jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg.”
For true devotees of Bad Sex, here are the notable excerpts for this year’s short-listed works.
Tuesday Morning Open Thread: He That Is Swift In Running After Money Shall
Not Be Innocent
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A new study puts a number on the potential human toll of sharp aid cuts
over the past year, projecting an extra 9.4 million deaths by 2030 if the
current...
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